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London: England's World Cup captain Eoin Morgan has been victim of an attempted blackmail over a former relationship, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday.
According to the ECB, an Australian man had demanded a five-figure sum to prevent a story about one-day skipper Morgan and a previous...

A 16yearold girl was allegedly gangraped here by two men who also made a video of the act andused it to blackmail the victim for assaulting her repeatedly, police said on Friday.
An FIR was lodged in this regard with Bhankhrota police station following a court's directive on a complaint of...

A 17yearold Dalit girl was allegedly gangraped in Jaunpur repeatedly since last December by three persons, following which one of them has been arrested, police said.
The incident came to light on Friday when the girl, a class 12th student, narrated her ordeal to her mother who filed a complaint with...

A married woman was allegedly raped by a man, who also recorded the act on his mobile phone and had been blackmailing her since in Gandhi Nagar area of the district.
"The accused, Dilip Jaiman, called the woman at a place two months ago on the pretext of giving her a...

An engineering student has been arrested for allegedly raping and blackmailing a 23yearold woman software engineer by making an obscene video clip of her, police said.
Rishabh Katodia (25), a civil engineering student who belongs to Bhavnagar in Gujarat, was arrested on Sunday after a written complaint was filed by the...

A 17year old girl was allegedly raped by a man for over two years and a video of the act was also made to blackmail her.
The accused Sohan Lal Bishnoi of Kankani village befriended the victim, a student of Industrial Training Institute, and took her to Jodhpur, where he raped...

Three youths have been booked for making an obscene video clip of a minor Dalit girl and blackmailing her, police said.
One of them has been booked on rape charge also. Lasudia Police Station incharge Narendra Gaharwar said Suraj (20), Deepesh (21) and Ritesh (22) were booked on a complaint filed...

Helsinki: Finnish telecoms equipment company Nokia paid several million euros to criminals who threatened to reveal the source code for part of an operating system used in its smartphones some six years ago, Finnish TV station MTV said on Tuesday.
The police confirmed to Reuters that they were investigating a case...

A hapur based girl has accused a constable of UP police living in her neighbour of rape and making an MMS clip of the act, police said.
The girl narrated her ordeal to Meerut IG following which, he gave orders for an immediate investigation into the matter.
While talking to reporters, the...

New York: IndianAmerican billionaire Vinod Khosla's family was allegedly a victim of an extortion plot in which the former boyfriend of Khosla's daughter threatened to distribute her purported nude photos if he was not paid money. According to a report on the Smoking Gun website, Stanford University graduate Douglas Tarlow,...

Three youths allegedly tried to blackmail their friend for money by threatening him to upload his nude photographs on a social networking site.
"The teenagers were demanding Rs 25,000 from their friend by threatening him that they will upload his nude photos on Facebook," police said.
"An FIR was on Sunday registered...

Three persons, including two media persons, have been arrested for allegedly making obscene video of a Delhi based businessman and demanding Rs 4 lakh from him.
"Manoj who works at a news channel, Shalini, employed with a magazine and a housewife Suman were arrested," said Shivram Yadav, Deputy Superintendent of Police....

A woman, who had accused senior bureaucrat JP Joshi of raping her after promising her a job, on Friday surrendered in a local court in connection with a blackmailing case lodged against her and three others by the suspended official, currently in jail.
The Uttarakhand High Court, while hearing a petition...

Youth Congress General Secretary Ritu Khandiyal was on Monday suspended from her post for her alleged involvement in blackmailing an Uttarakhand government official, who has been accused of rape, even as police is trying to contact her.
A 29yearold woman had lodged a complaint on November 25 in Delhi saying on...

Kanpur police has arrested a home guard for alleged sexual abuse and extorting money by blackmailing a 20yearold college student. The home guard, Dharamveer Singh befriended the victim, a B.Tech student from Jaunpur at the Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University in 2012. Singh abused the victim by making him unconscious and...

A 20yearold woman allegedly committed suicide after being threatened by her sisterinlaw of implicating her in a case of dowry harassment, police said in Kanpur on Tuesday. Aarti hanged herself in her room on Monday, police said.
A suicide note has been recovered in which she has blamed her sisterinlaw Shweta...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's Forest Minister Ganesh Kumar was forced to step down following allegations of domestic violence. The minister, though, has claimed that he is being blackmailed by his wife. He has filed for divorce alleging physical abuse.
It is high drama in Kerala as the spat between the husband and...

Mumbai: An Ahmedabadbased MBA graduate has been arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from a Mumbaibased man by obtaining latter's nude video footage by posing as a girl during their Internet chats, police said.
The accused Nikhil Lala had befriended the complainant through Internet and started chatting with him as...

New York: Action star Sylvester Stallone reportedly paid millions of dollars to his halfsister ToniAnn Filiti who was blackmailing him for allegedly abusing her for years.
At the height of his fame, the 'Rocky' star reached a confidential multimilliondollar settlement with his halfsister over the abuse allegations, reported New York...

Kanpur: A girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself after she was blackmailed by a former friend who threatened to post her objectionable pictures online if she did not cancel her wedding in February.
Sukanya, 24, residing in Naubasta Vikas area, was to get married on February 6. The girl's mother...

Mumbai: Veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha, who was admitted at Kokilaben Ambani Hospital last month, was finally discharged Sunday evening and left for home with his wife Poonam Sinha.
The 66yearold was admitted to the hospital in suburban Andheri July 2 after he complained of breathlessness following some paint work at his...

Kochi: The Ernakulam Additional Sessions Court on Wednesday awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment to Shobha John and five other accused in the case of blackmailing thantri Kandararu Mohanaru. Sessions Judge E C Hari Govindan awarded the sentence to first accused Shobha John, third accused Anil Kumar and fourth accused Bechu...

New Delhi: Who is better, Mohammed Rafi or Kishore Kumar? This debate about the two legends is going on since many decades. One can find a Bollywood superstar without Mohammed Rafi singing for him but it's next to impossible to find a superstar who is not aided by Kishore Kumar...

Mumbai: Actorpolitician Shatrugan Sinha, who underwent bypass surgery on Monday, is recovering and has been shifted to a private room from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
He was operated upon July 16 at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital.
"Mr. Sinha is doing well. He is recovering. He has been moved from ICU...

Mumbai: Actorpolitician Shatrughan Sinha, who was hospitalised with some breathing problem, is improving now, but discharge date has not been finalised yet, said a doctor Tuesday.
Sinha was admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital Monday afternoon following respiratory allergic reaction. "Mr Shatrughan Sinha is improving now. His condition is stable. But...

Mumbai: Money and sex Umesh alias Karan Rathod thought he had found a beeline to both. The journey didn't last long. Kasturba Marg police arrested the 38yearold yesterday for allegedly blackmailing his wife's friend for money and sexual favours. According to cops, Rathod was harassing a 36yearold Kandivli resident...

Rome:About one in 17 women have faced sexual blackmail at work in Italy, but the coercion is largely unreported due to fear, embarrassment, or a lack of faith in authorities, a survey showed on Wednesday.
Demands for sexual favours in return for gaining or retaining a job in Italy are...

Hyderabad: The director of the posh Parkwood International School here is arrested after a 16yearold student alleged rape and blackmail for months against him. Medical reports confirmed she had an abortion.
The school in the suburbs of the city is rattled by the allegation by the Class XI student against the...